Hurray! It's Owlboy's 5th Anniversary! The best day to spread some Owlboy love! Which is why we just launched this free demo of the game! (Windows only, Mac & Linux available soon!)
We hope you'll enjoy this taste of Owlboy. Meanwhile, we'll enjoy the taste of our anniversary cake over at our annual live-stream. There will be giveaways and developer commentary on the game.
Join us at twitch.tv/dpadstudio for our Owlboy anniversary livestream! We're going live 12pm PST (20:00 CET), with giveaways, developer commentary and CAKE, as we celebrate 4 years of owly shenanigans.
Owlboy & Savant Soundtrack Sale
Steam now supports official soundtracks, and we've converted all our soundtracks from DLC to proper OSTs.
To celebrate, Steam is hosting a gigantic Soundtrack Sale, and Owlboy + several of Savant's albums are now at 50% OFF, now till 14th Feb!
Did you know Owlboy's creator designed and painted most of Savant's album covers? We'll be posting musical funfacts throughout the week on our Twitter, tune in! ːsteamhappyː
~ DPad
Owlboy 3rd Anniversary on Nov 1st!
Join us on Nov 1st for Owlboy's 3rd Anniversary! We will be looking back at Otus's long journey throughout the week with some special surprises along the way! Keep your eyes to the sky and see you this Friday! https://twitter.com/DPadStudio
GIF competition - Win Limited Edition of Owlboy
Steam just got GIF support ~ time to animated things!
For a full gallery of Owlboy gifs - check out our official website, owlboygame.com/gifs
Competition
We're currently hosting a competition over on our social channels, feel free to hit us with your best Otus photobombs, and tag em #owlboy #gifaway to join.
Owlboy 2nd Anniversary - Sale - Competition - GIFS!
Two years ago - we launched Owlboy here on Steam, the team collectively breaking into tears after 10 years of work.
Today we are celebrating, and Owlboy is 30% Off for the next couple of days!
Steam now has support for GIFS, and we've collect quite a few from the game on our website and GIPHY!
Tomorrow, we are going to host a competition to win a Limited Edtion of Owlboy for Nintendo Switch, or Playstation 4. Check in on our Twitter for more details.
~ Thank you all for your amazing support over the years, and we're so happy you're still enjoying our very owly game <3 D-Pad Studio
Daily Deal - Owlboy 50% Off
Today, for the first time on any platform, we are putting Owlboy on a 50% Off for Steam's Daily Deal, celebrating the end of summer - the first summer our team has been able to take a proper vacation post-launch!
Summer & Art
And what a summer it's been! While we've been able to relax a little, there's always something going on. The game launched almost 2 years ago, but it still feels like only yesterday.
Fan-art is always a fantastic thing to wake up to. In June, our artist Simon (@snakepixel) prompted a #drawthisinyourstyle while posting his own artwork of Otus, Owlboy's main character. There's been a ceaseless stream of amazing art popping in since then.
Thank you to all our incredible fans for showering us in all forms of Otus's this summer!
Winding Down
While Owlboy's been a huge success for us on Steam, it recently hit home consoles, which is what we've mostly concentrated on since the original launch. Recovering has been... trying. In July, PCGamer did an interview focusing on the aftermath of releasing one's dream game -
I recommend giving it a read, especially since it covers some of my favorite dev's input on a very familiar topic.
Summer's End
So what does the future bring for our tiny team? We'll let you know soon. Now that we've got some rest, things are slowly ramping up to new and exciting things!
To keep an eye on us or get in touch, always feel free to hook us up at @DPadStudio. We've also created a Steam Developer Page if you want to have a peek at our other titles.
We hope you've had a brilliant summer!
All the best ~ Jo, D-Pad
Hotfixing the hotfix! Version 1.3.6613.28019
The previous build unfortunately disabled Steam achievements due to an error we made when preparing the build.
This version re-enables Steam-achievements, and ensures that anyone whose achievements were not unlocked will have them unlocked as soon as they load the relevant save.
We apologize for the inconvenience. Happy achieving!
Minor hotfix - version 1.3.6612.16848
This is a minor bugfixing release. The main change in this build is that we've removed a feature that makes Owlboy change to mouse and keyboard-mode if you press a keyboard key, and change to controller-mode if you press a button on your gamepad.
The reason we are disabling this feature is that Steam has released the Steam Controller Configurator, and this would occasionally cause gamepads to be treated as if they were a mouse and keyboard, which would cause Owlboy to switch between gamepad mode and mouse and keyboard mode, and make the game unplayable without some additional complicated configuration.
We hope that this patch will make the game perfectly playable for people who were getting this issue.
Other issues fixed:
- A rare crash that could happen if you gathered a lot of lava monkeys.
- A crash that could be caused by missing Windows permissions, which was forcing some users to play in administrator mode.
Yule Give-Away #2
Two Days Till Christmas, Two Give-Aways!
Join us on the D-Pad Twitter, and this fuzzy Otus might make his merry way to your doorstep this holiday!
